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Month: April 2011
Negroni
Eighty-year-old Grandma arrived to celebrate Easter with us. Knowing she loves the bittersweet taste of Campari and and its beneficial effects on the digestive system, we decided to mix a Negroni to welcome her. I admit we felt a bit worried the high content of alcohol could harm her (dizziness, sudden tachycardia, sleeplessness…). Instead she enjoyed it a lot, slept perfectly well and asked for repetition tonight… The original Negroni was invented in Florence, in […]
a splendid foretaste of summer
Lately I spent an awesome time with my daughter in Florence. We were strolling around all day long, visiting palazzi, museums and fashion shops, sunbathing on roof terraces, and, as a special challenge, we never ate twice in the same place! I swear to you I hadn’t been served so simple and so delicious meals in a long time… salads, grilled vegetables, carpacci, gelati, BIFTECA A LA FIORENTINA, panini, capuccini….just paradise! So, if you agree, […]
my proposal for your summer breakfast
A few months ago I bought an amazing Almwiesenmuesli (= MOUNTAIN PASTURE MUESLI). Beautiful to look at, in a bottle, with dried yellow and blue mountain pasture blossoms between grains and roasted nuts.. I know you understand me, I just had to buy it because it looked fresh and healthy (still colours are reason enough to buy something!…) We all know this: too often nicely coloured food looks better than it tastes. NOT THE ALM […]
antipasti in the sun
Lazy sunny weekend- like the beginning of an amazing holiday on a wooden three-master in the Mediterranean.. or at least in an ancient monastery in Florence.